A real possum nestled among soft toys and animals in a gift shop has thrilled passengers and given airport staff something unusual to deal with in Hobart.<\/p>\n
Liam Bloomfield, multi-site manager with Lagardere AWPL, at Hobart’s airport in Cambridge, said staff members found the possum around 11.45am today.<\/p>\n
“We found the possum sitting within the native plush,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It looked like he was pretty comfortable with his friends there.”Loading…<\/p>\n
Mr Bloomfield said the animal “was not stressed” and appeared calm \u2014 although things became much less calm when the animal left the store and took a tour of the airport.<\/p>\n
“We had passengers here, there and everywhere, taking videos,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit of a mad rush to make sure it was safe and no passengers were disrupted and that the possum got back home.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bloomfield said the real possum was “safely escorted” out of the terminal by Hobart Airport management.<\/p>\n
He said how the possum got into the airport building was “a true mystery”, but speculated it could be because of “redevelopment works” that are underway.<\/p>\n
He described the possum’s visit as a “nice little spike of happiness” during a normal day’s airport business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real possum nestled among soft toys and animals in a gift shop has thrilled passengers and given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[171617,171618,171616,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-482906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-hobart-airport","9":"tag-lagardere-awpl","10":"tag-possum","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}